What does does it mean to be "innovative?"
First, and invention is not an innovation until it is used.
The second thing follows from the first, that it is not a solo act. The acceptance of an invention, its use in the day-to-day behavior, is a consequence of it providing value and the effort of someone to bring the inventions to others to see and an instinct by the inventor that people will need or want it. Basically, innovation is an explanation, not a cause. What are the locations in the swirl of human activity we call "innovation?"
It is in places where social worlds overlap. Someone sees that something is working in one place and moving it to another. This is not to say that innovation is a random consequence of interaction. Some person must not only recognize the applicablity of something from one place in another place, but must convince people not only to do things differently, but to accept it from somewhere else..
